Don't throw out the old pot until you have the tinker makes a new one. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery! — Clarice Cliff
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do. — William Shakespeare
Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods! — J. K. Rowling
Oh, get out of the way, Percy,” said Fred. “Harry’s in a hurry.” “Yeah, he’s off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,” said George, chortling. — J. K. Rowling
A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle. — Og Mandino
Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy? — J. K. Rowling
Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. — J. K. Rowling
He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting up in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: 'To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! — J. K. Rowling
Short Potter Quotes
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. — J. K. Rowling
Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf! — J. K. Rowling
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. — J. K. Rowling
Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends! — J. K. Rowling
Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something. — J. K. Rowling
Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. — J. K. Rowling
What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does. — J. K. Rowling
The dementors send their love, Potter! — J. K. Rowling
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. — J. K. Rowling
Potter Image Quotes
Harry Potter Quotes
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days. — J. K. Rowling
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. — J. K. Rowling
Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! — J. K. Rowling
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. — J. K. Rowling
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — J. K. Rowling
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense. — Rupert Grint
Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way. — J. K. Rowling
What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? — J. K. Rowling
I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry. — J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter Movie Quotes
You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. — J. K. Rowling
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. — J. K. Rowling
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. — J. K. Rowling
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — J. K. Rowling
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. — J. K. Rowling
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. — J. K. Rowling
Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself. — Daniel Radcliffe
What exactly is the function of a rubber duck? — J. K. Rowling
Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. — J. K. Rowling
Memorable Harry Potter Quotes
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. — J. K. Rowling
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have. — J. K. Rowling
Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies? — J. K. Rowling
The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. — J. K. Rowling
I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. — J. K. Rowling
The ones that love us never really leave us. — J. K. Rowling
We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun! — J. K. Rowling
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. — J. K. Rowling
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? — J. K. Rowling
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on. — J. K. Rowling
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own. — J. K. Rowling
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before. — Rupert Grint
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. — J. K. Rowling
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. — J. K. Rowling
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. — J. K. Rowling
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! — J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter Book Quotes
I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders. — Rupert Grint
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. — Gary Ross
Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! — J. K. Rowling
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. — J. K. Rowling
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. — David Sedaris
I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can. — Judy Blume
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name. — J. K. Rowling
Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful! — J. K. Rowling
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing. — J. K. Rowling
I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, bad, strong, weak, motivated by hatred, motivated by love. A gorgeous, compelling, complex character who definitely earns a spot at my table. — Megan Chance
Harry Potter Film Quotes
And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. — Gary Oldman
Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along. — Tom Felton
this kiss between hermione and ron is highly anticipated, it's been building up for eight films now. and harry potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex. — Emma Watson
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something! — Daniel Radcliffe
I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully. — Tom Felton
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'. — Peter Greenaway
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on films that's often playing Harry [Potter] or I just think it's a natural thing that I have. It's something that I think about just because it's fascinating in a very alien kind of way. — Daniel Radcliffe
I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films. — Daniel Radcliffe
I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else. — Daniel Radcliffe
It’s cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here — J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter Series Quotes
Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey? — J. K. Rowling
I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that. — Jhene Aiko
The stories we love best do live in us forever. — J. K. Rowling
Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. — Armond White
The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength — J. K. Rowling
By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something. — Gary Oldman
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular. — Steven Levitt
Next time there’s a ball, ask me before someone else does, and not as a last resort! — J. K. Rowling
The first person I met in the business was David Heyman, who was a producer on Daytrippers and who went on to produce the highly-unsuccessful Harry Potter series. — Greg Mottola
Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton — Lou Lumenick
Pottery Quotes
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy. — Mark Twain
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. — Carol P. Christ
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go. — Rainn Wilson
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. — Sayings
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed. — Louis Comfort Tiffany
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes. — Mark Twain
Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson
Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music. — Rodney Yee
If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here. — Rachel Maddow
Clay Pots Quotes
Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
but the empty space between them
is the essence of the wheel.
Pots are formed from clay,
but the empty space within it
is the essence of the pot.
Walls with windows and doors
form the house,
but the empty space within it
is the essence of the home. — Lao Tzu
In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life. — Toshiko Takaezu
You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire. — Marge Piercy
To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay. — Thiruvalluvar
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it. — Stuart Dybek
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't. — Lao Tzu
When Bernard [Leach] wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay. — Warren MacKenzie
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide. — Paul Bowles
You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one. — Pam Brown
Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. — Huldrych Zwingli
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two! — J. K. Rowling
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. — John Dryden
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. — J. K. Rowling
You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. — J. K. Rowling
Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?" "Only once" said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—" "I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—" "Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand— — J. K. Rowling
Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret. — J. K. Rowling
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. — J. K. Rowling
We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat! — J. K. Rowling
You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge. — J. K. Rowling
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? — J. K. Rowling
What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “Oh no, Ron,” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up. — J. K. Rowling
George,” said Fred, “I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.” “Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,” said George lightly. — J. K. Rowling
Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t you?” he added to Harry. “What?” said Harry. “Harry Potter,” chorused the twins. “Oh, him,” said Harry. “I mean, yes, I am. — J. K. Rowling
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